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Bayelsa Traditional Ruler Sleeps In Car As Flood Ravages Palace

Bayelsa traditional ruler now sleeps in his car as flood ravages the palace.

 

Glamtush reports that His Highness, Amos Poubinafa, the traditional ruler of Tungbo town in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa now sleeps in his car, as floods have ravaged his palace.

“I have been sleeping in my Toyota Sienna for two weeks since the flood ravaged the palace.

“It reached the knee level and made the palace uninhabitable,” the retired Naval officer told newsmen on Monday in Tungbo.

“The car is the only safe place for me; the entire building is flooded and there is no safer place for me to sleep.

“My family has been relocated to Yenagoa. As the Captain on board (traditional ruler) this vessel, I cannot abandon my subjects to seek an alternative abode outside the town.

“By my training as a Naval officer, I am not expected to abandon the crew I am leading in my vessel. I am expected to be the last man standing,’’ he said.

Poubinafa also said he equally suffered in the floods of 2012, as he could not leave his subjects and relocate and that the situation is worse in 2022.

He appealed to the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA; the Bayelsa Emergency Management Agency and other well-meaning individuals to assist flood victims in Tungbo town.

He also called on the Federal Government to construct dams and dredge Rivers Niger and Benue to end perennial flooding in parts of the country.

Tungbo community is host to the Federal Scones and Technical College, a co-educational college founded in 2002 and located on Sagbama-Tungbo Road.

GLAMTUSH

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